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Last week's and this week's "Open Future" columns for FastCompany make up a two-part examination of the dilemmas surrounding transparency. In "I Can See You," I wrote: We leave digital footprints everywhere we go, and those footprints are becoming...

My new FastCompany column is now up. I Can See You looks at the dilemmas surrounding mass transparency and the "culture of documentation." With the rise of cheap, networked recording devices--aka, cameraphones--we're seeing the emergence of a culture of...

My latest FastCompany column is now up: "Should Creative Workers Use Cognitive-Enhancing Drugs?" (originally entitled "Me++"). We may face a choice between altering our brain chemistries and falling behind in the global economy. And with that altered brain...

This week's FastCompany column is now up: Social Networking and the Brain: Continuous Partial Empathy? asks whether the way we use social networking technologies is ultimately making us better people -- or worse... Social technologist Linda Stone talks about...

My latest FastCompany column is up. "Machine Ethics" explores the question of what kinds of responsibilities we have with regards to the increasingly autonomous systems we create. It's based on the "Laws of Robotics" talk I gave a few...

My second column for FastCompany is now live: "Resilience in the Face of Crisis: Why the Future will be Flexible" is a "let's talk about resilience" piece for people who haven't encountered the argument before. Although it echoes some...

Starting today, I have a ~weekly column at FastCompany, covering technology, ethics and the environment, and innovation, all from a futures perspective. My editor, Noah Robischon, asked me to kick off the column with a topic near-and-dear to my...